# 4,000,000 Telephones New Single ‘Hard Man’ To Be Released Friday September 24

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- Published: 2021-09-16T14:36:32-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**4,000,000 Telephones** **New single ‘Hard Man’** **To Be Released Friday September
24, 2021** **via download through Bandcamp **

Formed in 1983 and now nearly forty years on, 4,000,000 Telephones re-engage with
some previously unreleased material that is as relevant today as when it was recorded
back in the eighties. The five surviving members of the original line-up have been
listening through the band’s archives and have decided that it’s entirely appropriate
to release the previously unheard track, ‘**Hard Man’ **recorded in 1986.

**‘Hard Man’** was/is an uncharacteristically upbeat, melodic song with a big dollop
of irony; a satirical response to the emergence of the “hard men” of the 1980’s;
from the reactionary backlash against post-war progressive and social gains, aggressive
domestic and foreign policies, to the possibility of getting thumped of an evening
because someone’s team had lost earlier that afternoon. From pitch to politics, 
hard men were and continue to be, problematic.

To mark the single, the band recorded a video earlier this year in their home town
of Lincoln. The newly produced video will be released alongside the single on Friday
September 24. This will be the third release for 2021, seeing the band spring back
into action after being dormant for many decades.

Plans are afoot to release an album featuring their previously unreleased material
later in the year and as well as their back catalogue, the band will also be recording
new material.

**4,000,000 Telephones **gained national press in the UK, regularly featured in 
Melody Maker and play-listed by John Peel and Janice Long on BBC Radio 1. NME featured
the band as most likely candidates for better things, before proving them wrong.
They also toured Germany gaining national German music press. 

**4,000,000 Telephones**
are a collision of six minds from different musical directions creating a fascinating
melée of musical styles that delighted and baffled by equal measure. As well as 
the more contemporary elements of punk and funk that were widespread at the time
the music was also interjected with moments of country, jazz, pop and progressive
rock.

“_It was one of the best concerts and never, not for one second, boring. For years
I haven’t seen a concert where so many albums are spontaneously bought and the cool
guys queued to get them signed.” _(Communale – German Music Press)


“_Tipped as hot property on the indie scene… there is something excitingly different
hidden beneath…” _(NME)

“_Singing of worldly things from the point of view of another planet…. off the hook
and strangely engaging, 4,000,000 Telephones are the answer to all your hang ups.”_(
Sounds)

“_They burn with rare intensity and come close to carving out a perverse identity
of their own” _(Melody Maker)

**[Website](http://4000000telephones.co.uk/) [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/4000000telephones)
[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/4000000telephones/) [Bandcamp](https://4000000telephonesofficial.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR2B1UwjfOInkmU1bnEaLxATjzpS_efBTmcqfyyHFDQAhtubDGMCtvyr-cU)**

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